PL3054 - Skinner's. Mitchell River bank, about 12 km west of Bairnsdale (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 147.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° S, 146.4° E)

When: N8 foram zone, Wuk Wuk Marl Formation (Seaspray Group), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Batesfordian. Underlies Bairnsdale Limestone. Overlies Gippland Limestone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marl

• No description.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens at Museum Victoria.

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh. 2002. A revision of the Australian genus Umbilia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 59(2):355-392 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176218: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Umbilia (Umbilia) eximia Sowerby 1845 cowry
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Tubucellariidae
Siphonicytara clypeata
might be Gippsland
Siphonicytara irregularis Maplestone 1902
might be Gippsland